Last year was an intense one for Hendrix Poultry Breeders. The company broke its ties with Nutreco, became part of the newly created Hendrix Genetics, and in December was made the sister company of its French competitor, ISA. The integration of ...

Eggs with the smell of rotten fish do not necessarily come from hens that have been fed fishmeal. A genetic defect in brown layers lay cause a similar effect, especially when fed ingredients that trigger the production of the unpleasant smell.

Almost seventy poultry geneticists gathered in Dubrovnik, Croatia for the 4th European Poultry Genetics Symposium. The programme included discussions of the latest developments in molecular genetics and bioinformatics, biodiversity and genetic c...

After many years of investigation a group of geneticists from more than fifty research centres around the world succeeded in unravelling the entire poultry genome puzzle. Now completed, the question is what can be done with it?

In the Netherlands and the US special breeding lines and low nutrient density rations are being used to establish egg production systems with less feather pecking amongst birds. In Britain a leading broiler producer is also cutting mortality in ...

Twenty years ago there were still a large number of layer and broiler breeding companies. Today there are only a few left.

Twenty years ago when the first issue of what is now World Poultry was published, the international egg industry was a colourful pallet of breeding companies. Today there are only a few companies left. What happened?

The 21st Robert Fraser Gordon Memorial Lecture, annually given at the WPSA-UK branch annual meeting, highlighted the possibilities of genomics in poultry breeding.